TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 24, 2023

Nashville Mayor John Cooper’s latest spending proposal sets aside $92 million for a new juvenile justice campus that would include an expanded courthouse and space for family support services, the Tennessean reports. Juvenile Court Judge Sheila Calloway been pushing for more space since at least 2015. She says the court and its accompanying services have outgrown the current justice center, which has had routine plumbing issues that have resulted in sewage overflow into the staff’s basement workspaces. The new 14-acre "Nashville Youth Campus for Empowerment" would be located on Brick Church Pike and would include larger courtrooms, space for Court Appointed Special Advocates support services, a Metro Nashville Schools student attendance center and private meeting rooms for mediation, attorney-client meetings and therapy sessions. The proposal will need the approval from Metro Council before any money can be spent.